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Video Update: Silo District

Hey everyone, we have a new video here at CES! It features the Silo District, an area in the heart of campus where you can host your event. If you're looking for a lecture hall or a rustic setting for a small conference, the Silo District is the place for you. From the restored dairy barn the district is named after to the patches of warm sunshine bathing the grass, the Silo District is full of charm and the perfect venues for your next event. Play the video to see for yourself!

Out with the Old, In with the New!

Friday September 10, 2010

If you haven't had a chance to look already, we've released our new website to the public! With a fresh new design and simpler navigation features, you should be able to explore all of our great facilities, services, and more easier and faster. Although the design has changed, we are still providing you with all of the great attributes UC Davis has to offer. Take a look at our new website at http://events.ucdavis.edu today!

Summer Time at UC Davis

Friday July 16, 2010

The sun is out, it's hot, and folks are enjoying the beautiful warm nights in Davis. Where are you thinking about your event this summer? Look no further than UC Davis! With our numerous outdoor facilities and complete list of services, UC Davis is the an excellent choice for your summer event. Choose from Putah Creek Lodge, the Arboretum, Good Life Garden, or many more excellent facilities. Call and event planner today for more information, and remember when your choose UC Davis: everything you need is already here

Happy Fourth of July!!

Friday July 2, 2010

From all of the UC Davis Conference and Event Services staff, we would like to wish everyone out there a Happy 4th of July! As we continue to go through these great summer months, we would encourage all of you out there to choose UC Davis when planning your next big event. With all of our beautiful outdoor venues, you will be able to have a professional planned event in a very relaxed environment. Remember when you choose UC Davis: everything you need is already here!

Have Your Wedding at UC Davis

Friday June 11, 2010

Did you know that you can have your wedding at UC Davis? Well if you didn't know, now you do! UC Davis is not just one of California's premier meeting places for academic event and conferences, but is also a great place for you and your loved one to tie the knot. With a variety of outdoor facilities such as the: Putah Creek Lodge, Shields Grove Gazebo, or Good Life Garden, you can have a beautiful wedding.

To start planning your wedding at UC Davis there are no special requirements. Just as if you were planning a conference or event, call and event planner today and they can get you started on an event that will be one of your prized memories. Remember when planning with UC Davis, everything you need is already here.

Hyatt Place at UC Davis

Monday June 1, 2010

Did you know that there's a hotel right on campus? The Hyatt Place UC Davis was added to all of the other great facilities on campus and is now available for you to stay in! The Hyatt Place UC Davis has all of the great qualities of any Hyatt Place, and also provides you quick and easy access to any of the many meeting places you can choose from while having your event or conference here at UC Davis. With great highlights such as: complimentary hotel Wi-Fi, complimentary breakfast, 24-hour made-to-order menu items and pre-packaged snacks, specialty espresso drinks, complimentary newspaper, complimentary parking, and MORE. If you have any questions or would like to make a reservation, you can visit the HYATT PLACE UCDAVIS website or call and talk with an event coordinator today!

Exercise and You

Friday May 21, 2010

Health and Wellness is something very important in everyone's life. From the young to the old, it is important to exercise at least 30 minutes a day. Whether it's walking to your favorite restaurant during your lunch break, or playing a pick game of basketball with some friends at your local neighborhood park, getting in that 30 minutes of exercise can do great things for you.
The UC Davis Campus Mind Body Wellness Committee, Kaiser Permanente, and Staywell collaborated this past week to encourage folks to add 30 minutes exercise to their daily routines, so we decided to continue to carry the message out to the end of the week as a reminder. If you have any questions, take a look at the UC Davis Campus Mind Body Wellness Committee's website here for more information on how to stay up to date on events as well as health and wellness tips. Remember, exercising doesn't have to be something you hate to do, find a physical activity that you enjoy!

Event Planning on Your Mobile

Friday April 16, 2010

Have you ever thought about managing an event on your mobile phone? Well Cheryl Lawson, owner of The Perfect Date, has developed an event planning application for Google's Android smartphones. Actually bringing two key applications in one package, the Event Planning tools application is actually a meeting space calculator, as well as an event budget calculator. Both components of the Event Planning tools application are very basic and consist of a mere plug-in strategy that will yield the event planner the numbers they need to get started with their event planning and coordination. Lawson explains in her article that although these applications have been around, in this day and age, their is a great convenience in having these specific applications on your mobile phone in order to get quick on the go results. To read more about Lawson's Event Planning application tools, or more about here event management and marketing firm, visit the hyperlinks above! Keep up the great work Cheryl and all those at The Perfect Date!

We want your feedback!

Hello all! Hope you all are enjoying the beginning of what looks to be a beautiful spring! At Conference and Event Services we are always looking for ways to improve our communication with you and we would like to ask you all out there what you would like to see us talk about more? What news do you want to hear? What specifically about our department do you want to know? As our clients, we want to know the best ways and best media to connect with you on. Please email aklong@ucdavis.edu with your thoughts and comments and we'll work to make our connection with all of you out there the best it can be. Thanks!

CES Marketing Team

O'Bon LLC

Tuesday March 23, 2010

Last week, our marketing team here at UC Davis Conference and Event Services were able to sample some of the great products presented us by O'Bon, and what great green products they have to offer! We sampled some of the numerous pencil and notepads that are made up of 100% recycled material. The pencils are quite sturdy and seem to last longer and stay better protected than regular wooden pencils, and the notepads are just as great as any notepad out there; however, these notepads being green, have a little bit of a leg up for being environmentally friendly! We'd like to encourage all of those in the community to try out O'Bon products as they are a great substitute to many products that you make already have! Don't forget to use a promotional code for 15% when purchasing online, just enter freakofriends in the promotional code field. Hope you all give O'Bon

Welcome the Hyatt UC Davis Hotel

Friday March 19, 2010

We would like to welcome our newest facility on campus, the Hyatt UC Davis Hotel! If you haven't noticed, there was a lot of construction going by the Robert Mondavi Center on campus, and now it is finally compelete. The Hyatt UC Davis Hotel will have all of the luxuries of any Hyatt hotel including: complimentary hotel-wide Wi-Fi Internet access, complimentary continental breakfast buffet, 24-hour made-to-order menu items and pre-packaged snacks, speciality espresso coffee drinks, self-served check-in/ check-out kiosks, complimentary 24-hour Stay Fit® fitness center with Life Fitness® cardio equipment, and outdoor pool.

Event planners at UC Davis will be previewing the hotel this week and UC Davis Conference and Event Services would encourage all of our clients out there to think Hyatt UC Davis when planning your next over night stay in Davis. With all of its great amenities and being directly on campus, you'll have easy access to all you need around you. Remember when planning with us here at UC Davis, everything you need is already here.

Welcome Katrina Evans

Friday March 12, 2010

The Conference and Event Services Marketing team would like to welcome Katrina Evans to the team as our new Marketing Manager! Katrina is an alumna of UC Santa Cruz and graduate with a degree in Sociology and Journalism. Starting to work for UC Davis in 2006 in our department as a Registration Coordinator and she soon moved into an Event Coordinator position in 2008. Now as the Marketing Manager, she will supervise all marketing interns and will work side by side with our director on all marketing campaigns.

If she's not relaxing with her husband and two cats, Katrina enjoys shopping, reading, planning weddings and organizing her closet. If you're ever up visiting the office don't be forget to say hello and welcome Katrina!

Learning in Las Vegas

Friday March 12, 2010

This week, our Marketing Team and two Conference coordinators embarked on a journey to the fabulous city of Las Vegas where they learned great tips on how to further brand ourselves as an organization and how to boost our performance to further help you as clients. "You're going to hate me again, but I've got a lot of new ideas we should try out," said our director Lina Layiktez as she came back into the office today. During the great talks at the Event Solutions Conference & Tradeshow, Lina was able to gather some progressive ideas to implement in our department for the next upcoming months. Everyone was able to participate in the social media talks which "were very informative and really set us in the right direction for the future," said Ana Kitchen CES Program Manager and Katrina Evans, our new Marketing Manager, "the ways in which we'll be able to connect with people should be more creative and efficient." Other events that were attended by our wonderful conference attendees were: Wedding Design from Concept to Completion, Business Development: How to Turn Customers into Evangelists, and Maximizing Your Event Outcome in Times of Change. All and all, our marketing team is very excited as we are always looking for new ways to make our services better for all of you out there. With all of these great new ideas and perspectives we're sure we'll be able to be a lot more proficient in these times of change. Keep a look out on all of our social networks sites for updates!

Registration? We Can Do That for You Too.

Friday March 5, 2010

Usually when booking with other organizations, you are going to have to either handle registration yourself, or find another party to hand it for you- not with us! Here at UC Davis Conference and Event Services we have registration solutions that are convenient for any conference or event you may have. Our registration services include: conference web page, online registration and credit card processing, Printed materials, mailings online, and abstract submission acceptance. To say the least, we have you're basic registration needs covered, and we want you to take advantage of this great service! So the next time you're thinking about planning a conference or event and you have registration, you can check it off when booking with us. Call an event planner today and get your event going!

CES and Beyond: Kevin Ger

Friday March 5, 2010

At UC Davis Conference and Event Services we have quite a few highly skilled and motivated interns that prove to do great work for our department. As a team, it is important that we all work together, and with the help of our interns, we don't miss a beat.

One of our recent graduates, Kevin Ger, was a graphic designer for our department, and did a lot of great work for us during his time working in our department. He designed the materials for Plan Green 2009, and various other CES collateral material that we are still using today. If you're looking for someone with talent in the graphic designing area feel free to visit Kevin Ger's website at: http://www.middaystudio.com/. Congratulations to Kevin Ger for not only obtaining his degree from our great university, but for being a great employee with us!

A Thank You From CES!

Thursday February, 18 2010

To everyone out there that attending the Plan Green Conference and Event Planners Exchange Tradeshow, we'd like to give you a big thank you! Because of you all, we are able to have this event every year, and we'd like to thank you for all your participation and feedback. To all of the vendors and caterers, we know these are tough economic times, and for you to come out after such a touch year really shows your appreciation for this event. For all those event planners that attended, we'd like to thank you for coming out to listen to our speakers and find vendors and caterers for your future conference or events. Please if you all have any feedback, please email aklong@ucdavis.edu to share your experience, and thanks again for attending!

Plan Green and EPE Tradeshow

Friday February 12, 2010

Hello everyone! This is just a friendly reminder that the 2nd annual Plan Green Conference and the 13th annual Event Planners Exchange (EPE) Vendor and Caterer Tradeshow will be this upcoming Tuesday, February 16. We are excited for yet another year for these two great events and expect a lot of great vendors, caterers, and event planners to be in attendance. We would also like to thank our sponsors: Gaia Hotel, UC Davis Transportation and Parking Services, and Screaming Squeegee. These three sponsors have given some great giveaways for the Plan Green Conference, so please say thank you when you see them at the EPE Tradeshow! So, until Tuesday, see you all at the conference and the tradeshow! Have a safe and relaxing three day weekend!

What Are You Doing After Your Conference?

Friday February 5th, 2010

Have time in between your conference or event? Or do you want to stick around in Davis after your event? Visit one of UC Davis's many on campus attractions! From the California Raptor Center to the Gorman Art Museum, or the Bohart Entomology Museum, there is something for you to see right on our beautiful. As we've said before, "everything you need is here," and we weren't just talking about event coordination and event management, there's things for you and your colleagues to do while you're not cooped up in a room listening to speakers or busy thinking about the direction of your company's sales plan. We want you to be able to relax and actually discover and see things you wouldn't be able to see anywhere else, and what a better way to do that than on a University of Calfornia campus? So the next time you book an event or conference with us, ask about the on campus attractions we have to offer, there's something for everyone!

You Need Athletic Facilities? We Have Those Too.

Friday January 29, 2010

With many of our athletic teams being NCAA Division I, it is only right that we have great facilities to match our team's great performances. From Aggie Football to Women's Water Polo, Men's Basketball to Women's Lacrosse, there is a facility that matches the caliber of these great young men and women.

Aggie Stadium, UC Davis's newest athletic facility, seats 11,000 spectators and is one of the premier stadiums in the Sacramento Valley. The Schaal Aquatic Center, with up to a 24 swimming lane capacity, once again providing the Sacramento Valley with another great athletic facility. So what does that mean for all you athletic event planners out there? Well, this means that our great facilities are here for you to use as well! Not only are these facilities here for your great UC Davis Aggie Athletics, but for your potential athletic events!

"Hosting youth sporting events on college campuses is a natural fit. The facilities are at your fingertips all within close proximity, dorms and dining facilities are added bonuses, and there's a strong base of event volunteers to be found in the student body. UC Davis is a beautiful setting for such events and the Campus Events and Visitor Services are a friendly and reliable group to work with." -Amanda Stokes, Sports Manager, Amateur Athletic Union

As Amanda said, "hosting youth sporting events on college campuses is a natural fit," so why look any further than UC Davis? With everything from the athletic facility that you need, to over night accomodation and dining facilities, we're you're one stop shop as an event planner. If you're interested in having an athletic event at UC Davis please call an event coordinator today! And remember: Everything you need is already here.